Transform Retail with IBM Big Data Solutions

There is a lot of focus on big data, but sometimes it makes sense to look at the small data at hand and explore how to drive value from that. In this webinar, Mike Weston will present how to iteratively work with the data available, from e.g. purchase patterns, web browsing or location data, and gradually grow big insights.

If you are looking for the scalability and performance needed to support interactive, ad hoc analytics on billions of rows – and with SQL – this latest Data Science Central webinar will show you how to combine distributed, columnar storage and parallel query processing with powerful aggregate functions to deliver faster time to insight using modern, on-demand analytics, as well as how to leverage the power of Kafka and Spark connectors to plug into existing data pipelines. We will discuss the architectural overview of columnar databases, share real-world use cases and give a live demonstration.

The HAProxy Data Plane API enables you to configure your HAProxy load balancers programmatically. This latest release, version 2.5, expands coverage of existing HAProxy configuration directives, fixes bugs, and optimizes performance.

Big data is here. Data analysts are leveraging big data to help businesses better understand their customers, markets and operations. HR can learn and leverage some of these techniques to better understand how to attract and retain talent, engage employees, enhance managerial effectiveness and drive business performance. We will provide an overview of big data, how it is being used in the consumer world and discuss applications for the human capital world. We will also provide best practices for getting started with analytics for HR.